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Saturday, May 31, 2003
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8:27 PM
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6:13 PM
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5:55 PM
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"Sen. Kerry, we don't want Dean Lite, either." But it is less filling. "The one thing this country doesn't need is a second Republican Party." No, but we could use a second Green Party. "What we need in this party is not just people who talk about backbone, but people who have it." The last I heard jellyfish didn't make it that far up the evolutionary chain. "When I was in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1968, I learned what it was to work with an aircraft carrier for real." Unfortunately, the noise from all those fighters forced me to wear a hair helmet to protect my ears, but it worked so well I've worn it to this day. "[M]y goal to restore the 2.7 million jobs lost during the Bush administration within my first 500 days in the White House." And all of them will be in the Federal government! (That was a Do line. He didn't deliver it. I think I know why.)
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5:29 PM
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When I first saw MESS.com's head I thought, WILT? But then I remembered. He was too busy to be gay. Besides, it would be pretty hard to speak of him in the present tense. (I'm what blogs these days.) This is sort of up there with Rock, er, Doris Day being the world's oldest virgin.
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5:22 PM
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Will Amnesty swallow that?
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4:14 PM
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Perhaps some of the men ought to play the women's tour.
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4:07 PM
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4:00 PM
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Does anybody take the Beltway's tax bills seriously anymore? If so, I think we've got an issue here.
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3:41 PM
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I suspect where the cockroaches are they have plenty of time to hone their incineration skills.
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3:36 PM
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3:26 PM
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John Kerry -- a "realist"? With THAT do? I will concede this, though: all that hair spray probably does cause him to hallucinate.
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3:08 PM
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2:49 PM
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9:35 AM
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They're NOT on our side -- yet.
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9:33 AM
by Gene
Is this headline supposed to have a double meaning?
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9:30 AM
by Gene
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9:25 AM
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9:23 AM
by Gene
Friday, May 30, 2003
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5:38 PM
by Gene
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5:28 PM
by Gene
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5:24 PM
by Gene
"More money and a wider reach will create more stars, more self-indulgence, and more errors. Get used to the new Times; it is fated to become bigger, richer, and worse." Why is it not true for anyone else? Why is GENERAL JR. better than Pinch? WHY IS IT, NR?
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5:21 PM
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6:52 AM
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"You can tell he uses Viagra as well," says a second, to a chorus of giggles. "That's America for you." "It's just so French," says one shop assistant, "the Saddam worship, Jerry Lewis in the windows." "You can tell he hates Jews," says a second, to a chorus of giggles. "That's France for you."
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6:39 AM
by Gene
Thursday, May 29, 2003
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5:58 PM
by Gene
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5:31 PM
by Gene
We wondered where you went to.
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5:26 PM
by Gene
Don't worry, you'll get your way -- when Sen. Rodham wins.
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5:24 PM
by Gene
Ka-CHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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5:17 PM
by Gene
How did that poem of hers go? "A Nazi is a Nazi is a...." Never mind.
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5:08 PM
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6:47 AM
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6:30 AM
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I guess Gov doesn't have a monopoly on opening his mouth too much.
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6:29 AM
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Wednesday, May 28, 2003
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7:36 PM
by Gene
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5:26 PM
by Gene
Like the furor over Jayson, this battle of the halfwits will sail over the public's heads because, a la Seinfeld, it's about nothing. (Actually, Seinfeld wasn't about nothing. It was about Seinfeld.)
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5:24 PM
by Gene
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5:20 PM
by Gene
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5:14 PM
by Gene
No, it's your responsibility to govern by bribes and junkets.
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5:11 PM
by Gene
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5:03 PM
by Gene
Phua to youa!
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5:00 PM
by Gene
Next stop: bankruptcy. You can't keep selling $18 CDs and hope to make a profit.
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7:01 AM
by Gene
The [ad campaign starring a porno "actress"] caught the attention of Bill O'Reilly of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, who accused Pony of hiring "quasi-prostitutes to market its products." The remarks led to a public back-and-forth with [the "actress"], who said Mr. O'Reilly should know the difference between a porn star and a hooker. Aside from the cameras, what is the difference?
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6:53 AM
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I know one thing: if he takes the oath of office it will be to the tune of six different inaugural addresses.
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6:51 AM
by Gene
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6:32 AM
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Where's the truth?
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6:27 AM
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Meantime it emerges Braggart's writing a novel. He has the experience. Tuesday, May 27, 2003
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5:59 PM
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5:55 PM
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Talk about the need for second opinions.
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5:50 PM
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Hmm, come to think of it, wasn't Argentina Adolf Eichmann's favorite country?
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5:37 PM
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5:28 PM
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It's such fun to see professional sports fall flat on its overpriced face.
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5:22 PM
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5:15 PM
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FIRED? He should have been given an extra 72 virgins.
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5:11 PM
by Gene
KaCHINGCHINGCHINGCHINGCHINGCHINGCHINGCHINGCHINGCHINGCHINGCHINGCHINGCHINGCHINGCHINGCHING!!!!!
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5:09 PM
by Gene
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5:00 PM
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7:03 AM
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7:01 AM
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This is like saying, "'Fruit juice drinkers, pacifists, hygienists, Quakers, feminists, nudists, sex maniacs, Nature Cure quacks, vegetarians, and contraception advocates' may back Democrats in 2004."
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6:55 AM
by Gene
Since you still have us turnips to squeeze with your rotten service, why spin it off, King Richard? Monday, May 26, 2003
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7:46 PM
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I want to see him coach Sneaker Man. He does, too.
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7:30 PM
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Peter G. Davis, a very good critic, also came out against our generation's musical UBERMEISTER, Herr Sondheim, which prompted Herr Sondheim to snap back in a letter just how good he is. You can't win with these New York Times readers.
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6:36 PM
by Gene
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6:14 PM
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Which reminds us, GENERAL JR., what are you going to do about Opie and Anthony? MY guess: he wants to give the Zon the usual ten-grand fine, partly as a political favor (forgetting who's publishing Sen. Rodham's "MEMOIRS", GENERAL JR.?), partly as a rehearsal for a career as a seven-digit suck-up, but if he does that he alienates Dubya's -- CORE, especially the -- CATHOLICS. Between this and giving the store away to Big Media GENERAL JR.'s mental calculator is near meltdown these days. P. S. Opie and Anthony are "looking for work in television these days." I would say "good luck" with a sneer, but knowing the American Society of Willfully Ignorant Advertisers, they may get it.
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5:43 PM
by Gene
No one will ever accuse The Gliberal of plagiarism -- unless you count copying yourself, and that's merely onanism.
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2:00 PM
by Gene
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8:38 AM
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I thought they already set it at the Times's headquarters.
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8:31 AM
by Gene
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8:24 AM
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![]() I don't know if Sen. Kleagle was into nooses, but otherwise, it sounds like his game.
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8:17 AM
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8:15 AM
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8:10 AM
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I'll bet the twelve who voted against were -- REPUBLICANS. Let's spam 'em.
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8:04 AM
by Gene
Sunday, May 25, 2003
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7:43 PM
by Gene
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12:22 PM
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9:27 AM
by Gene
TEHRAN, May 25 — Iran’s Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi called Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network a “dangerous organization” on Sunday and said his country was serious about combating it. PFFH-hh-hh-hh-HH-HH-HH ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
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8:24 AM
by Gene
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8:17 AM
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FIRE THE MAN!!!!!
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8:08 AM
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I can think of a few public countenances I'd like to pelt with old vegetables. Perhaps that the Algerians can do it -- against a strongman -- is a sign they want democracy too. On the other hand, it is a stronghold of holy cockroaches.
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8:00 AM
by Gene
The party that Devin "The Press Agent" Gordon started New Year's at BLUNDER magazine continues today on the golf course. This is why so many fool pols look over their shoulders. This is why the Supremes want to do "the right thing." They all want to live "for the ages" -- in a medium that most throw out the next day, or that's used as bird-cage liner, or a training ground for puppies. They all want in on that "first rough draft of history," even if in their cowardice they're revised out of it. They want to be flattered by -- LARRY and CURLEY. You've got to be taught to hate and fear....
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